Tag: The Art Field
Consumerism and Built-in Obsolescence, in Counterpoint to Adriano Olivetti
An implied contradiction: Formafantasma’s reflection on consumerism and Technological Obsolescence takes place in Venice at the Olivetti store—a primary reference for the purpose economy
Consumismo e obsolescenza programmata, in controcanto ad Adriano Olivetti
Una mostra a contrasto, reazione: il ragionamento dei Formafantasma su consumismo e obsolescenza tecnologica prende luogo a Venezia, al negozio Olivetti, primo simbolo di imprenditoria etica
At the Biennale, it’s all sweat: a trillion trees—nothing else will save us
Introduction to Carlo Ratti’s Architecture Biennale: the lone subject is sustainability—a “mind-boggling” number of trees, humanity on its knees, sweat, heat, and a bacterial population boom
Alla Biennale, il sudore: mille miliardi di alberi, non c’è altro da fare
Introduzione alla Biennale Architettura di Carlo Ratti: l’unico argomento è quello sostenibile: un “numero da capogiro” di alberi, l’umanità che crolla, sudore, calore e la sovrappopolazione di batteri
Bas Smets: architecture must care for the survival of human beings, animals and plants
“These trees were planted by Napoleon in the 18th century—an early lesson in large‑scale reforestation that we would do well to emulate today.” Interview with Bas Smets, co‑curator of “Building Biospheres”
From Manufacturing to Sustainability: The Transformation of the Eco-Friendly COCO-MAT Lofts
Sustainable living in Cape Town: COCO-MAT Lofts were renovated by Lida and Luca Verbeeck in 2017 and has been self-sustaining since inception
Gli alberi sono i committenti dell’architettura: dentro la Biennale 2025 di Carlo Ratti
«La riforestazione deve iniziare in modo concreto e locale, albero per albero, marciapiede per marciapiede. È una delle poche soluzioni efficaci al surriscaldamento delle città». Intervista a Carlo Ratti su...
Can Juergen Teller be Just Like Us?
In 7 ½ at Sabbioneta’s Palazzo Giardino, Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte turns historic ceilings and raw snapshots into an intimate stage for love, legacy, and domestic spectacle
The Dikan Center: Africa’s biggest photography library in Accra, Ghana
As Africa has always been narrated by outsiders, Ghanaian photographer Paul Ninson brings the continent’s visual history back home to start an inside narrative
Oda Jaune Reclaiming Wings: Angels Among Ruins
Being religious was nearly a crime. At home, my parents trained me to answer school ques- tions carefully, to evade, to feign indifference. No one could know we were believers...
Beyond the ashes: Isabelle Albuquerque crafts eternal narratives of feminine agency
"I struggled with the disconnect between my internal femininity and my body. It was before the internet. It was isolating, but there was the Amazonians…" From her studio on the...
Rediscovering Marine Forests at Miart: Julian Charrière’s Art for Ruinart
Julian Charrière has conceived an ode to the Lutetian Sea, a vast body of water that covered the Champagne region 45 million years ago. At Miart, Ruinart continues its initiative,...
Adriàn Castañeda: Mantenga la calma at Madrid Art Week
Founded as an alternative platform to traditional contemporary art spaces, UVNT Art Fair returned to Matadero Madrid for its ninth edition. An interview with Adriàn Castañeda on his public installation
In Paris, the Gallery Perrotin hosts artist Bernar Venet and painter Susumu Kamijo
Parisian Gallery Perrotin and bookstore, with the same name, has locations in New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai, displaying world class art and merchandise
Paper as an art medium – Paper Positions, Berlin: in conversation with Heinrich Carstens
Once realizing that Bikini Berlin was not suitable for large paintings or big installations, the team shifted their concept to focus on artworks made of and about one material only:...
König Galerie, Berlin: real-life optical illusions with Mona Ardeleanu
König Galerie's main program focuses on interdisciplinary, conceptual, and space-based multi-media forms including painting, printing, photography, sight, sound, and performance art
Protection No Longer Assured at Colección SOLO in Madrid: an analysis on the sublime
In a present marked by disruptive technologies and disinformation, armed conflicts and environmental collapse, Protection No Longer Assured revisit the concept of the sublime
Apotek 57, Copenhagen. No room for chemical-ridden produce in the kitchen
«It is difficult to buy something that is not organic in Copenhagen», states Chiara Barla founder of the eatery located in a Seventeenth-century pharmacy. Milk, yogurt, and eggs are sourced...
“I am not a painter”: an Interview with Daniel Buren
“Many painters, few geniouses” says Daniel Buren. His investigation began in the 1960s with the use of vertical stripes, each measuring 8.7 cm: interventions on fabric, glass, wood, flags
Post-colonialism and historically relevant topics, inside Stevenson Gallery with Sinazo Chiya
«We’ve seen debates about contemporary art and artists in places such as Oceana, South America, and China are increasingly coming to light», connecting the Global South through art
A fair with local roots and an international outlook – Photo Basel
Switzerland’s first international art fair dedicated to photography-based art returns from June 13 to 18. In conversation with Sven Eisenhut, Photo Basel Founding Director
Stones that breathe and water that sees: Tarek Atoui
With dripping water, a breathing organ, and handmade Korean drums, Improvisation in 10 Days unites Atoui’s work into an evolving sonic environment
Jordan Watson reimagines the present of the Black community with “Easier to Breathe” in St. Moritz
Robilant + Voena presents Jordan Watson’s Afrofuturist works in the Protestant Church of St. Moritz – an interview with Jordan Watson on art, digital community, and racism
How Wrestling Rituals and Creative Vision Shape Modern Senegal
Photographer Kévin Félicianne’s lens on urban Dakar: documenting the city’s transformation through teenagers’ eyes, as Senegalese wrestling grows from rural tradition to stadium spectacle
Inside the ‘Back Office’ of War: Nothing Personal, Just Business
Between hyperrealistic simulators and bullet-shaped finger food, photographer Nikita Teryoshin reveals the behind-the-scenes of the arms trade—one of the biggest economic sectors in the world
Daniel and Sam Kapp represent queer culture at Kapp Kapp Gallery, New York
Daniel and Sam Kapp are conscious about their social privileges. Choosing to show queer art means to support queer people
Copenhagen Contemporary. Designing art projects in the 7,000-square-foot of the B&W welding hall
In contrast with many art centers and institutions which implemented digital strategies to overcome the challenges imposed by the pandemic, Contemporary remains phisical
Maria Callas: la ruvidità di voce e di carattere in Maria di Pablo Larraín
La ruvidità di voce e di carattere in Maria di Pablo Larraín, biopic sulla Callas interpretata da Angelina Jolie: la recensione dopo la prima proiezione alla Mostra del Cinema di...
My name is Viviane Sassen and those scars are not my own scars
On the occasion of a travelling retrospective, Sassen looked into her archives and rediscovered a body of work she made while studying in an MFA program. Folio interrogates the preoccupations...
Jean Cocteau’s drawings: explicit sexuality – It is all about poetry
For Cocteau, it was all poetry: a drawing blended with words, Jean Marais the lover and actor in Orpheus, his friendship with Peggy Guggenheim, a relationship with Natalie Paley, the...
Reality as seen from a helicopter
Overcoming the banal beauty of the postcard landscape: stains are everyday realities, landscapes, scraps of life defined by chromatic contrasts
Kiki Smith: legends, fairy tales, and religious icons
Bronze sculptures and small-scale paintings are set up inside the Galleria Lorcan O'Neill as within a temple or a church
The Swab Barcelona Art Fair opens towards East Asia: where are the tentacles of the Octopus?
The art fair opens up to the global scene while at the same time furthering Barcelona’s own art tradition. This year’s edition focuses on East Asia, the cities of Tokyo,...
What happened this summer at Centrale Fies
"We explore whether a cake can become more than just a treat: can it be a bold, chaotic, and revolutionary landscape?" interview with Barbara Boninsegna, artistic director and founder of...
Saodat Ismailova: tigers, silk, cotton and the Uzbek cosmic embroidery
Working with dreams, oral narratives, silk, and glass, filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova’s work at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca explores the entangled histories of Central Asia
«Am I dreaming or awake?» – the schizophrenic work of Cinzia Ruggeri
Spell and reality by Cinzia Ruggeri. In conversation with Luca Lo Pinto, creative director of Cinzia says..., the ended exhibition at MACRO in Rome that is moving to London
Cassi Namoda – «I feel pregnant with work: all these ideas want to have a birth»
«Galleries should have no expectations. Every artist has overworked or underworked something. I will be the only one to know if it's finished». Cassi Namoda on her approach to work...
CHART Art Fair, Copenaghen. Interview with Director Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Neo Nordic Architecture challenged the white cube gallery format with a flexible wall system which lets the daylight through to illuminate the artworks – while at night it can be lighten...
Gaetano Pesce: «we can’t be solid; we are as liquid as our time»
From the polyurethane of the UP series to the resins of Vieni a Vedere installation for Bottega Veneta: experimentation doesn't need to be taught; it just has to be done
A Look Inside Painter Alexander James’ London Studio
Alexander James, known for his large-scale and layered abstractionist paintings, has a tendency to bring together in his compositions what many would consider to be disparate subjects
Alice Guareschi: an action for house lights
The 16 photographs that make up Je m’appelle Olympia were shot right after the live activation of the light choreography in the theatre's empty space
Christoph Büchel at Fondazione Prada: a politically-charged trompe l’oeil project on debt
Fondazione Prada in Venice transformed into a pawnshop – Swiss artist Christoph Büchel on the notion of debt and the many declinations of it, from the religious to the economic
Unsettling: Gigi Spelsberg inhabits a new space
We see her old possessions wrapped and bound, in a studio space void – tentatively being moved into their new environment which is still under construction
Minotaur – the rough love story between Lily Stockman and Le Corbusier in Paris
The American artist Lily Stockman is the first woman to exhibit at Maison La Roche – with an exhibition that follows her “obsession” with Le Corbusier, blending Greek mythology and...
How to Handle With Care: a show-guide on art collecting and the relevance of exhibition spaces
A robot - a stuffed dog - following training related to the description of the works, is able to produce an analysis together with ChatGPT - its observations are ironically...
Oman, Zimbabwe, Grenada – la Biennale di Venezia oltre i Giardini e l’Arsenale
Fuori dai siti principali della Biennale di Venezia ci sono i padiglioni esterni e le mostre collaterali: Grenada con No man is an island, l’Oman con la forza delle donne,...
